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PCI Compliance Scans Are Flagging Non-compliant Versions Of Miva Merchant
Up until now it seems that even non PCI Compliant versions of Miva Merchant were not getting flagged by some PCI Compliance scannig agencies such as SecurityMetrics. We came across a site that was being flagged as having ‘Possible blind sql injection’ and it was followed by a bunch links to the merchant Miva Merchant store. Often times the PCI Compliance scanners do raise false positives and in fact this is one of those times but simply running the latest streaming update from Miva within the Miva Merchant admin allowed this site to pass the scan. Your other option is to contact your PCI scanning company and alert them that this is a false positive and hopefully they comply. You should check with a Miva specialist to make sure the streaming updates will not conflict with any modules or customization that have been made to your store. It is also good practice to check that your additional modules are updated to the latest versions as well.
ALERT: Security Metrics PCI Compliance Scanning is now picking up on non-compliant versions of Miva Merchant.
SOLUTION: Stream the latest Miva Merchant updates from the Miva Admin (If it has been a while since the last time you ran the updates and your store is customized you may want to check with your web master or Miva Specialist before running the updates).
Problem Summary per Security Metrics:
Possible blind sql injection on http://www.domain.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Category_Code=100&Current_Product_Code=&Store_Code=NTFL&Screen=OINF&Offset=&Attributes=Yes&%3FAction=ADPR style=”display: none;”> wp –bsql “http://www.domain.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Category_Code=100&Current_Product_Code=&Store_Code=NTFL&Screen=OINF&Offset=&Attributes=Yes&%3FAction=ADPR” “http://www.domain.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Category_Code=100&Current_Product_Code=&Store_Code=NTFL&Screen=OINF+and+1%3D1&Offset=&Attributes=Yes&%3FAction=ADPR” “http://www.domain.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Category_Code=100&Current_Product_Code=&Store_Code=NTFL&Screen=OINF+and+1%3D0&Offset=&Attributes=Yes&%3FAction=ADPR” POST cat <<EOF > bsql.sh curl -L -d “Category_Code=100&Current_Product_Code=&Store_Code=NTFL&Screen=OINF&Offset=&Attributes=Yes&%3FAction=ADPR” “http://www.domain.com/Merchant2/merchant
Allow Email Address As Login Name
You can allow customers to use their email address and special characters in their login name. Read more
Make Your Miva Merchant Store Extremely SEO Friendly
Finally, there is a list of SEO recommendations to implement on your Miva Merchant store to make it more appealing to search engines when they crawl your site. Miva Merchant is not completely search engine ready straight out of the box. The Miva Merchant SEO recommendations made here are my opinions based on 10 years of experience working with hundreds of Miva Merchant stores. There is no guarantee that implementing these changes on your site will get you top search engine listings because that is mostly dependant on you and your content and of course your competitors but I will guarantee that using these techniques will get you better search engine rankings than you have now. Read more
Miva Merchant and Blogging with WordPress
A great quick way of getting crawled by search engines is to create a blog with wonderfully originally content.
If it seems like you have done everything you can yet you are still not getting crawled as often as you would like then you should add a blog to your website. Blog’s have a tendency to get crawled quickly especially if you submit a sitemap to the major search engines every time you post a new article. Often times your new articles and posts will get crawled that day.
I recommend WordPress because it is very SEO friendly straight out of the box as they say and it is absolutely free. We allow you to add WordPress automatically through our control panel. WordPress is extremely easy to use and you can add media such as images, videos, links to video etc. It has a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) interface option for those that do not know how to code in HTML.
Remember original content is always king. Since you can categorize your posts and links in a blog it is usually ok to post about ‘off topic’ subjects which really broaden your keywords and phrases. If you are trying to sell products on your site then you should stay away from controversial subjects. Don’t make it all off topic though. You do want to post articles that are relates to your Miva Merchant store and to your products and categories. The purpose of a blog is not only to get crawled but to create interaction with people that are browsing your site. If you post interesting material then you will get visitors and comments from your visitors.
The more frequently you post the better and put links to your products or categories whenever possible so that your Miva Merchant store is crawled when your blog is crawled.
Good luck, have fun and POST!
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Tweet up your WordPress Blog
I found a great new plugin for WordPress that allows you to display your latest tweets in your sidebar, post tweets from your sidebar or within the WordPress admin and also automatically tweets your new WordPress posts. It seems to have everything you need for your Twitter and WordPress integration all built in.
The name of the plugin is “Twitter Tools” and you can check it out here: http://alexking.org/projects/wordpress
In addition you can add a twitter “Follow Us” type badge to your blog like the one you see here on the right of the page. I used WP-TwitterBadge but there are several out there that all seem to do the same thing.
Have fun and tweet amongst yourselves!
How to: Upgrade WordPress Automatically
WordPress Blogging and Miva Merchant
WordPress 2.8 + allows you to automatically run updates from the WordPress admin. As long as you know your FTP username and Password you can run it automatically and it takes care of all the extra steps which save you time and unfortunate mistakes.
To run the auto update you just log into your WordPress admin and if there is an available update there will be a message at the top of the page when you log in that says something like this:
WordPress 2.8.4 is available! Please update now.
You simply need to click on the ‘Please update now.’ link and choose ‘Upgrade Automatically’. Fill in your ‘Hostname’ field with your domain name (example: morditech.com) then in the ‘username’ and ‘password’ field type in your FTP username and password (This may not be the same as your WordPress username and password). The connection type should be set as ‘FTP’. Click the ‘Proceed’ button and let it run. This process may take several minutes because it is doing a number of things including backing up, downloading the new version, and the actual upgrade with a few post upgrade procedures.
Be patient and let it run. If you run into any problems contact your web host and let them know. Usually if there is a problem it is just file permissions that can be easily updated by your WordPress web host.
Good luck and have fun.
What you need to know about WordPress Video by Matt Cutts
Here Matt Cutts explains the in’s and out’s of WordPress and blogging best practices. He tells you about WordPress Security as well as Wordpress SEO techniques and best practices. There is advice on how to blog and how not to blog etc. Matt Cutts is a software engineer and head of Google’s Webspam team.
General FTP instructions and FTP Software explanation
There is a now a great FTP program that is available for free. The program is FileZilla and it can be downloaded here: http://filezilla-project.org/ Read more
WWW. with 301 redirect
The most accepted way to make sure all of your traffic goes to the appropriate URL is to use a 301 redirect in your .htaccess file. Read more